Harry Mathews Quotes
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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The show has become my therapy.
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There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
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I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
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Even working from nature you have to compose.
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Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
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At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.
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You got to realize there will be huge Elvis fans out there who'll be really critical, and I'm sure I'm my worst critic, but to get to do my own interpretation of Elvis and do it on a platform like this is really cool.
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
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The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.
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My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.